Probably 90% of sub to / seller financed transactions involve purchase price ABOVE what an investor would pay having to obtain new institutional financing or paying cash.  

I haven't, however, found much info on them as an institution so looking here.

To avoid any confusion, this is not the same thing as ( “home sharing”, or an “owner-occupied rental.”)Improvements generally need to be depreciated over 15 years, note I said generally, depending on the nature of the improvement and how long the IRS standard depreciation period is for the cost and size of expenses.Strategies depend on a number of things including, but not limited to: type of property, your material participation, how long you plan to hold it, your goals.

Treasuries will go "no bid" and there will be a collapse of confidence in both (i) the U.S. dollar, and (ii) U.S. treasury debt instruments [bills / bonds / etc].When this financial inflection point comes, you do not want to own assets who's values are directly tied and leveraged to the yield on U.S. treasury debt instruments (specifically commercial real estate where most market participants are max leveraged).

Big enough that you aren't competing with newer investors/house hackers but small enough that you aren't competing with institutional money.

Participant Loan.

This tends to eliminate appraiser incompetence and requires adherence to guidelines set by the Appraisal Institute.  

Begin with do you gave a participating housing authority ( HA) in your clients area? 

I am networking with the other MFM participants, it's just tricky because most of us are newbies.

I highly doubt any institutional lender, big or small, will provide a loan without insurance.